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sules sometimes more than 12 millimeters (half an inch) in length. 
Weddell combines under the name of C. officinalis the Cinchona 
Chahuarguera, C. Condaminea, C. Bonplandiana, C. crispaand C. 
Uritusinga of former systematic botanists. 
A prominent distinction between C. officinalis and C. lancifolia 
is not plainly observable. 
Those different forms of C. officinalis probably furnished chiefly 
in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and to the present time 
the so-called Loxa Cinchona. According to Wellcome, the region 
of Loxa, from the fourth to the fifth degree of southern latitude, 
on the boundary of Ecuador and Peru, is now exhausted. 
Other figures of C. officinalis are to be found in Hooker’s Bot. 
Magazine, 5364; Howard's NV. Quinol, I, 19; Howard's East India 
f7., 1X ; Bentley and Trimen’s Afedic. Plants, 140; and in Baillon’s 
fiist. des Plantes, 340-341 (uncolored, but elegant). 
SECTION III. 
REMIJIA. 
Of the most closely connected allies of the Cinchonas mentioned 
on page 10 only two species of the genus Remijia have as yet 
attained actual significance. The shrubs belonging to this genus 
were recommended to the Brazilians first from the environs of Ouro 
Preto, the chief city of Minas geraes, by a surgeon Remijo, as 
Quina de Serra or mountain cinchona,’ in that they are distributed 
as far as the rough, dry, mountainous regions of the Province Minas 
geraes. Velloso, the Brazilian botanist, who has already been 
mentioned on page 11, had described such Quina de Remiyio, as it 
was also called, under the name of Macrocnemum.?_ Saint-Hilaire > 
placed these plants in the series of the genus Cinchona, which at 
that time was much more broadly comprehended than at present. 
De Candolle* was the first to separate the genus Remijia, which, 
according to Triana, at present embraces the following species: ° 
1C. F. Ph. Von Martius, ‘“ Die Fieber-Rinde, der Chinabaum, etc.’ in Buchner's 
Repertorium fiir Pharm. X11 (1863), p. 358. 
? In Vandelli, lore lusitane et brasiliensis specimen. Conimbrice, 1788. 
3 Plantes usuelles des Brésiliens. 1824. 
* Bibliotheque universelle de Geneve Il (1829), 185. Prodromus, IV, 357. 
’ Bentham et Hooker, Genera Plantarum, II (1873), 33, accept 13 species of Remijia, 
and enumerate therewith, among others, the Cinchona prismatostylis (Tab. VII) and C. 
macrophylla (Tab. XXXV), which have been handsomely figured by Karsten. The 
former corresponds to the character of the Remijia evidently on account of its bell-shaped 
calyx, the glandular disk, and the terminal panicles. In both of the latter respects, on 
the contrary, the cinchona (Remijia) macrophylla is again separated. According to Triana 
(Nouvelles Etudes, 72), this is nothing else than Remijia ferruginea D. C., Prodr. 1V, 357. 
